Dr. Ram BoojhProgramme ChiefUNESCO Cluster Office for South AsiaNew Delhi r.boojh@unesco.org

Haiyan: one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded devastated Philippines, Viet Nam and Palau , stressed that the countries least responsible for climate change are those most affected

Countries continue to pour billions into the industries that are fueling climate change- main cause for disasters

Diplomats at the UN Climate Change conference in

Warsaw, Poland , watched the impact of the typhoon on the Philippines but could not do much. The conference envoy from the Philippines even started a hunger strike in protest of the lack of action.

• World is currently debating a new post 2015 sustainable development goal to replace the MDGs as a follow up of Rio+20 which called for establishing a new sustainable development global order built around economic growth, the environment and social inclusion.

• The 53-page outcome document, The Future We Want, adopted at Rio+20 aims to lay the groundwork for a green economy and replace the MDGs which expire in 2015.

• UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called the outcome document a blueprint for making the world a brighter, safer place.

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

• Millennium Summit of UN, 2000, Adoption of UN Millennium Declaration• 193 UN Member State + 23 International Organizations Agreement to Achieve 8 Goals with 23 Targets by 2015• Achieving Dates on Specific Targets• Financial Supports by WB, IMF, AfDB (Cancel Debt for HIPC, 2011, 33 sub-Saharan Africa/ 39 States)

1. Eradicating extreme Poverty + Hunger,2. Achieving Universal Primary Education, 3. Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women,4. Reducing Child Mortality Rates,5. Improving Maternal Health6. Combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other Diseases,7. Ensuring Environmental Sustainability, and8. Developing a Global Partnership for Development.

Target 1.C of MDG 1 aims to ‘halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger’.

According to the MDG Report for 2011, the proportion of people in the developing world who went hungry in 2005-2007 remained stable at 16 per cent, despite significant reductions in extreme poverty.

The MDGs are interlinked; progress in one goal supports progress in others. Supporting sustainable agriculture and rural development helps increase food production and reduces poverty and hunger. Food and nutritional security are the foundations of a decent life, a sound education and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

RIO+20: There is a need to address food and energy as the main and critical There is a need to address food and energy as the main and critical driver of sustainable development and the new global Climate Change dealdriver of sustainable development and the new global Climate Change deal

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) affirms Right to Adequate Food for All.

Access to adequate food in the rural areas of many developing countries depends heavily on access to natural resources, including water, that are necessary to produce food.

UN General Assembly declared access to clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right on 28 July 2010.

Right to Water in the context of the Right to Food is a complex question.

it is necessary to put right to food at the heart of international climate change negotiations.

Investing in a food-secure model using small-scale fiscal stimuli that mobilise the untapped potential of local producers is imperative. Small-scale processes can provide a mechanism to foster sustainable solutions to the problems of food and water security and spread benefits more evenly across communities of farmers and consumers alike.

Small-scale farming and organic, agro-ecological methods are the way forward to solve the current food crisis and meet the needs of local communities. The benefits of organic farming as a means to address food security and ecosystem resilience

Badly managed developmentEnvironmental degradationPoor governance and a lack of

respect for human rights increase the numbers of vulnerable and impoverished people living at risk

Two waves of change – long term climate change and immediate economic crises – are bringing the issue of food security into sharper relief, particularly where food security is already volatile and faces a series of risks and challenges. 

Climate change adds urgency and the need for renewed focus and prioritisation, as well as ensuring that adaptation is wholly integrated into natural resource management, land use policies and especially into broader long-term macro-economic frameworks.

Right to food is impacted by disaster By thinking of lack of food as a disaster

situations, and providing access to food as disaster management, the value chain problems can be better addressed within existing programs and frameworks

Within logistics the most important thing is to have access to food and the right to proper dietary supplement and nutrition

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vital role in constructing a global culture of disaster risk reduction

conceptual shift in thinking away

from post-disaster reaction to pre-disaster action

Multidisciplinary knowledge base, Education, Science & Culture; Laboratory of ideas Standard setting Capacity building

DESD: Manpower training Skill development

Water program Assist in quality of food

UNDESD – United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

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UNDESD is supported by the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 – 2015: “Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters”, adopted by 168 Member States at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Japan, which highlights the importance of education and learning as part of its priorities for action, using knowledge, innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels.

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Community Led Approaches

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Partners: Agropolis international institutions/ Agropolis Foundation

Study : World’s dynamic food systems, similarities and differences, human & environmental impacts

Dissemination: Scientific & technical knowledge, economic & technological "memory" of local food systems, agricultural & food policies, management operations in supply chains;

Knowledge exchange: Strategic issues such as the Right to food, global food security and building sustainable territorialized agri-food chains;

Co-development: strengthening an international scientific and educational network focusing on the issue "how to well feed the planet in a viable way”

 Established in 2007 at EPFL, Switzerland operates as an international cooperation platform, building bridges among disciplines and sectors & aims to find adapted technology solutions to bring sustainable development to the greatest number of people.

Environment Science and technology for disaster risk reduction

Established In 2006. ICHARM deals with water-related disasters such as floods and droughts, which are major challenges that need to be overcome in order to ensure sustainable human development and poverty alleviation.

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